Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Library users have been protesting against plans to close libraries as part of a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 2 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 3 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 4 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 5 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 6 | WHILE the Grand Opera House remains closed for repairs — with no date yet as for its re-opening — disappointed ticket-holders for its forthcoming shows have been queuing for refunds . |
| 7 | I have been entertaining at children 's parties — as clown , magician , juggler and musician — for over twenty years . |
| 8 | More than a hundred and fifty schoolgirls have been getting to grips with the subtle skills of scrummaging and line outs . |
| 9 | Both crews have been training for months . |
| 10 | Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments . |
| 11 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 12 | Many families who get into difficulties have been struggling with problems that would daunt the most energetic and resourceful of people . |
| 13 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 14 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 15 | My searches this month have followed exactly the same lines as those of last month ; that is to say , I have been venturing into areas possessing no known or recorded activity . |
| 16 | Too many of its customers , from the newspaper industry to the Post Office , have been shifting to lorries because rail is unreliable . |
| 17 | FOR THE first time , to his knowledge , the forces of law ‘ n ’ order have been tampering with items mailed from the US to Maurice Frankel , director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information . |
| 18 | Disabled people from all over the country have been competing for honours in a carriage driving contest . |
| 19 | It is now accepted that UDR members and RUC officers have been leaking to loyalists . |
| 20 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 21 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 22 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 23 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 24 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 25 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 26 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 27 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 28 | So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites . |
| 29 | So tidy minds in the West have been thinking of ways to keep the process under control . |
| 30 | Axelrod 's programs are an excellent model for the way we , throughout the book , have been thinking of animals and plants , and indeed of genes . |